Natalia Kordiak Quintet | Nils Petter Molvaer Trio

NATALIA KORDIAK QUINTET

Though the music of improvising singer Natalia Kordiak is rooted in traditional jazz, she has long liberated herself from genre models and academic constraints. Her interests focus on what lies underneath the surface of verbal meaning. She uses her voice as an instrument to penetrate deeper, frequently detaching her artistic message from standard layers of meaning and exploring colours, intentions, and emotions instead. The immense wealth of her music has its core in improvisation. Words, when they appear, are carefully selected and thought out but conceived as but a signpost to mark directions at the start of the journey.

Members: Natalia Kordiak (vocals, electronics), Tomasz Dąbrowski (trumpet), Mateusz Kołakowski (piano), Alan Wykpisz (double bass, bass guitar), Grzegorz Pałka (drums)

NILS PETTER MOLVAER TRIO

This year’s Jazz Juniors Festival and the entire Kraków Jazz Week comes to its close with a concert by a band led by Jazz Juniors new artistic director and artist-in-residence, Nils Petter Molvaer. A major figure in the Scandinavian and European jazz scene, he has drawn inspiration from different genres during the several decades of his career. He made history as co-founder of the cult quintet Masqualero, but most of all as an innovative creator of a new synthetic musical language at the intersection of jazz, electronics, and ethnic music. Over the nearly three decades that have passed since that time, he has taken up ever new projects, invariably bearing the stamp of his keen creative mind and clear vision, which allows him to implement his original concepts.

In Cracow, Molvaer will lead a trio of Norway’s most creative star musicians, all of whom contribute to the band’s powerful expression and guarantee unrestricted creativity of the highest calibre.

Members: Nils Petter Molvaer (trumpet), Jo Berger Myhre (guitar, double bass), Erland Dahlen (drums)